WiFi disable configuration is required in some countries

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Issue by sgk
Friday Sep 20, 2013 at 06:51 GMT
Originally opened as https://github.com/arduino/linino/issues/5

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In some countries, it is prohibited to use WiFi without a government certification. The countries include Japan, we are distributing Yun after applying a small patch to disable WiFi function.

Currently, we can disable the WiFi interface (wlan0) using LuCi web interface. However, this causes your daemon (wifi-live-or-reset) to reset the Linux.

Additionally, this configuration should be retained after "reset-to-factory-anyway" by pressing the WiFi Reset button more than 30 seconds.

You may want to see my patching script.

Such WiFi disabling capability may be useful also in countries that is not prohibited.

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Comment by tigoe
Friday Sep 20, 2013 at 10:03 GMT

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That's something we should add on the product page and in the store product page so people know in advance and can correct.

Shigeru KANEMOTO [email protected] wrote:

In some countries, it is prohibited to use WiFi without a government
certification. The countries include Japan, we are distributing Yun
after applying a small patch to disable WiFi function.

Currently, we can disable the WiFi interface (wlan0) using LuCi web
interface. However, this causes your daemon (wifi-live-or-reset) to
reset the Linux.

Additionally, this configuration should be retained after
"reset-to-factory-anyway" by pressing the WiFi Reset button more than
30 seconds.

You may want to see my patching
script.

Such WiFi disabling capability may be useful also in countries that is
not prohibited.

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Comment by sgk
Friday Sep 20, 2013 at 17:59 GMT

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Thank you. This newer version of the patching sketch runs standalone with no need of the internet connection to get an actual patch shell script on GitHub Gist.